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  • Captain Dave Hanson is a native of southwest Florida. He has been fishing local waters since childhood, and has been fishing professionally for over fifteen years. He is Coast Guard licensed, and is a member in good standing of the Bonita Springs Chamber of Commerce. He has been quoted and featured in several national fishing magazines, and he also appears weekly in the fishing reports sections of the local paper.

  • South West Florida Fishing Report - FL

    Fishbuster Charters' Captain Dave Hanson reported, "Long-time customers, Jim McGrath and Bill Crockett, fished 19 to 23 miles west of New Pass with me on Monday, 3/19. They used squid and cut-bait to box fourteen keeper lane snapper and three 12-inch grunts. They released seventeen smaller grunts and sixteen red grouper shorts.


    Tom Butts, Sr, his son, Tom Jr, and his grandson, Tommy, fished southern Estero Bay’s backwaters with me on Tuesday, 3/20, with live shrimp for bait. The guys caught six sheepshead, including one 15-inch keeper, eight mangrove snapper, including one 11-inch keeper, and a keeper redfish at almost 20 inches.


    On a very windy Wednesday morning, 3/21, Keith Strum and his son, Luke, fished southern Estero Bay with me on a catch-and-release trip, using live shrimp for bait. The guys released seven black drum, ten mangrove snapper, and a half-dozen sheepshead.


    Thursday, 3/22, I spent another windy morning in southern Estero Bay on a catch-and-release trip with the Griffin family—Bill and Michelle and their three children, Billy, Alex, and Avery. The family used live shrimp to catch and release twenty mangrove snapper, one sheepshead, and one black drum. We spotted some dolphin, and the family got to video four dolphins that escorted the boat as we headed in.


    With seas still too rough to head offshore on Friday, 3/23, Steve Stroupe, Larry Pflederer, and their friend, Lou, fished the backwaters in the southern end of Estero Bay with me, using live shrimp. The tide was lower than it had been the past couple of days, but the guys caught quite a few fish, including twenty sheepshead, of which four were keepers to 17 inches. They also released eight short mangrove snapper.


    Saturday’s seas were predicted to be two feet offshore but, after a week on high winds and seas, the gulf must have needed a little more time to calm down. It was choppy heading out to 19 miles west of New Pass on 3/24 with Lee Larsen and friends. The red grouper were biting, but none were keeper-size, so the group released a dozen of those, and they boxed some grunts to take home to eat. The dolphin invaded us a couple of times and, though fun to watch, they don’t help with the fishing!"

    1.) Angler Bob Ellis 21-inch gag grouper, caught on cut-bait and released 23 miles west of New Pass on a recent offshore Fishbuster Charter.



    2.) Angler Mike Bochman with a 19-inch-inch red grouper, caught on squid 22 miles west of New Pass on a recent offshore Fishbuster Charter.
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